Back in June, the Red Hot Chili Peppers shared that they were at work on a new album. Now guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has revealed details about the new effort in an interview with Noise 11, NME reports.
Klinghoffer said the group has "28 or 30 songs" in the works and have been recording in the studio despite not yet having a producer on board.
"The Chili Peppers are working every day writing," Klinghoffer told them. "We have produced a more elaborate demo stage into the writing, at least more than the band has before. Flea owns a really great studio now. I've been recording and writing with the Chili Peppers every day."
Klinghoffer added, "We've written musically 30 songs now. We sort of did this last time, which was my first album. We piled a sh*tload of stuff on Anthony and he actually came through. He wrote lyrics to 50 songs in the end. We recorded 50 last time. We released an extra 17 that didn't go on the album. We are conscious to not do that again but we are already up to 28 or 30 songs."
When asked if longtime producer Rick Rubin, who has produced every album since 1989, will be joining the project Klinghoffer said they weren't sure yet.
"That is sort of up in the air still," said Klinghoffer. "Normally he becomes involved in the arranging process but he hasn't yet been which is good for me. I like it the way we are doing it so far. There has not been an official producer named yet so in the absence of that you never know what could happen."
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